A new middle school civics class was approved by the Indiana State Board of Education one year after state lawmakers required the government and citizenship standards to be taught to younger students.

As if managing a high school civics class wasn’t stimulating enough, along came COVID-19 and one of the most contentious election seasons in history. But local teachers are up for the challenges, with ...

The defining experience of Jordan Zamora-Garcia’s high school career — a hands-on group project in civics class that spurred a new city ordinance in his Austin suburb — would now violate Texas law.

Americans are about to get a civics lesson -- and not a moment too soon. Next month hordes of visitors will flood the National Mall to watch the swearing in of President-elect Barack Obama. Millions ...

Last spring, Massachusetts eighth-graders took the state’s first ever civics MCAS exam, finally setting a benchmark for achievement more than six years after the state passed new social studies ...

A civics makeover is unfolding in a school cafeteria on Chicago’s West Side, where some 40 Chicago Public School teachers are debating hot-button issues and role-playing as members and staffers of a ...

A new free store of donated items for people who rely on the Avon Township Food Pantry, an oral history project aiming to tell the story of the Round Lake area, and a $30,000 scholarship fund made up ...

A civics makeover is unfolding in a school cafeteria on Chicago's West Side, where some 40 Chicago Public School teachers are debating hot-button issues and role-playing as members and staffers of a ...

Civics education in public schools has been on the wane for decades, and it shows. Here’s how Massachusetts is making it matter again. It’s early September at Newton’s Bigelow Middle School, and a ...

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Jonathan Collins, a professor of political science, public policy and education at Brown University, talks about the so-called "Nation's Report Card" on civics and U.S. history. The so-called Nation's ...

With all of the mess that is going on involving the president of our country, many news reports leave us speculating that No. 45 was asleep at the wheel or cut civics class. Much of the focus is on ...